CVE-2020-28941

An issue was discovered in drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.9.9

Medium · published November 19, 2020

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
25.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.9.9. Local attackers on systems with the speakup driver could cause a local denial of service attack, aka CID-d41227544427. This occurs because of an invalid free when the line discipline is used more than once.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00334 · 25.6th percentile
Published
2020-11-19T15:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 NOV 15:23Z
    An issue was discovered in drivers/accessibility/speakup/spk_ttyio.c in the Linux kernel through 5.9.9
    cvelistv5